1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 32 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 7, 1992 (qualification) August 8, 1992 (final) |
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The men's javelin throw at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 7th and 8th, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 32 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Czechoslovak Jan Železný , who won ahead of the Finn Seppo Räty . The bronze medal went to Steve Backley from Great Britain.
For Germany, Volker Hadwich started. He reached the finals and was twelfth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Title holder
Olympic champion in 1988 | Tapio Korjus ( Finland ) | 84.28 m | Seoul 1988 |
World Champion 1991 | Kimmo Kinnunen ( Finland ) | 90.82 m | Tokyo 1991 |
European champion 1990 | Steve Backley ( Great Britain ) | 87.30 m | Split 1990 |
Pan American champion 1991 | Ramón González ( Cuba ) | 79.12 m | Havana 1991 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991 | Juan de la Garza ( Mexico ) | 75.78 m | Xalapa 1991 |
South American Champion 1991 | Luís Lucumí ( Colombia ) | 74.42 m | Manaus 1991 |
Asian champion 1991 | Zhang Lianbiao ( People's Republic of China ) | 81.52 m | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
African Champion 1992 | Tom Petranoff ( South Africa ) | 87.26 m | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
Oceania Champion 1990 | James Goulding ( Fiji ) | 71.54 m | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
World record | 91.46 m | Steve Backley ( Great Britain ) | North Shore City , New Zealand | January 25, 1992 |
Olympic record | 85.90 m | Jan Železný ( Czechoslovakia ) | Seoul , South Korea Qualifying | September 24, 1988 |
Comment on the records:
With 94.58 m the Hungarian Miklós Németh had achieved the last Olympic record with the javelin used until 1987 in Montreal on July 26th, 1976 .
The last world record with the old javelin was 104.80 m and was set on July 20, 1984 by GDR thrower Uwe Hohn in East Berlin .
qualification
Date: August 7, 1992
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 80.00 m. Since only eight throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 79.14 m was enough for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Jan Železný | Czechoslovakia | 83.96 m | - | - | 83.96 m | |
2 | Tom Pukstys | United States | 74.30 m | 81.16 m | - | 81.16 m | |
3 | Gavin Lovegrove | New Zealand | 76.28 m | x | 81.04 m | 81.04 m | |
4th | Juha Laukkanen | Finland | x | 77.14 m | 79.78 m | 79.78 m | |
5 | Mick Hill | Great Britain | 76.30 m | 76.76 m | 79.66 m | 79.66 m | |
6th | Sigurdur Einarsson | Iceland | 76.06 m | 77.02 m | 79.50 m | 79.50 m | |
7th | Viktor Saizew | EUN | 75.24 m | x | 79.12 m | 79.12 m | |
8th | Patrik Bodén | Sweden | 75.78 m | x | 77.70 m | 77.70 m | |
9 | Ivan Mustapic | Croatia | 75.66 m | 77.50 m | x | 77.50 m | |
10 | Julián Sotelo | Spain | x | 75.34 m | 72.98 m | 75.34 m | |
11 | Brian Crouser | United States | 71.42 m | 74.98 m | x | 74.98 m | |
12 | Zhang Lianbiao | People's Republic of China | 70.84 m | 73.86 m | 73.68 m | 73.86 m | |
13 | Nigel Bevan | Great Britain | x | 73.78 m | x | 73.78 m | |
14th | Terry McHugh | Ireland | 70.76 m | 73.26 m | 71.64 m | 73.26 m | |
15th | Stephen Feraday | Canada | 70.94 m | x | x | 70.94 m | |
16 | Youssef Ali Nesaif | Bahrain | 55.24 m | 53.80 m | 52.30 m | 55.24 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Volker Hadwich | Germany | 81.10 m | - | - | 81.10 m | |
2 | Steve Backley | Great Britain | 79.36 m | 80.76 m | - | 80.76 m | |
3 | Seppo Räty | Finland | 78.96 m | 80.24 m | - | 80.24 m | |
4th | Kimmo Kinnunen | Finland | 80.22 m | - | - | 80.22 m | |
Andrei Shevchuk | EUN | 80.22 m | - | - | 80.22 m | ||
6th | Michael Barnett | United States | 77.08 m | 79.14 m | 75.34 m | 79.14 m | |
7th | Einar Vilhjálmsson | Iceland | 76.18 m | 76.82 m | 78.70 m | 78.70 m | |
8th | Dag Wennlund | Sweden | 76.28 m | 77.70 m | 77.88 m | 77.88 m | |
9 | Dmitri Polyunin | EUN | x | 75.70 m | 76.40 m | 76.40 m | |
10 | Mārcis Štrobinders | Latvia | 73.76 m | x | 76.32 m | 76.32 m | |
11 | Peter Borglund | Sweden | 71.38 m | 74.72 m | 72.70 m | 74.72 m | |
12 | Masami Yoshida | Japan | 71.66 m | 73.68 m | 73.88 m | 73.88 m | |
13 | Vadim Bavikin | Israel | 73.88 m | x | 73.24 m | 73.88 m | |
14th | Kim Ki-hoon | South Korea | 72.68 m | 69.30 m | 68.26 m | 72.68 m | |
15th | Nery Kennedy | Paraguay | 65.00 m | 55.10 m | 59.34 m | 65.00 m | |
ogV | Ghanim Mabrouk | Kuwait | x | x | x | without space |
final
Date: August 8, 1992
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them over the required qualification distance, four more over their placements. All three Finns were in the final, as well as two US Americans and two participants from Great Britain. The final field was completed by one participant each from Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Team.
A duel was expected between the 1988 Olympic runner-up Jan Železný from Czechoslovakia and the British world record holder and European champion Steve Backley. Other medal candidates were the two Finns Kimmo Kinnunen, world champion 1991 , as well as Seppo Räty, vice world champion 1991 and Olympic knight 1988,
Železný took the lead in the first lap with the new Olympic record of 89.66 m. With 82.44 m Backley had to show in second place more than seven meters less. In the second attempt, Räty reached 86.60 m and displaced Backley in third place. Kinnunen also passed Backley in the second round with 82.62 m. In the fourth lap Backley improved to 83.38 m, which he recaptured third place. Železný had three failed attempts in rounds two, three and six. But his fourth throw in the 88.18 m would have been enough to win. Jan Železný was now Olympic champion after his silver medal in Seoul . Silver and bronze went to Seppo Räty and Steve Backley. The Icelander Sigurður Einarsson and the third Finn Juha Laukkanen took fifth and sixth. Four Northern Europeans were among the top six, including three Finns. Gold and bronze, however, went to Czechoslovakia and Great Britain.
Jan Železný was the first Czechoslovak Olympic champion in the men's javelin .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Jan Železný | Czechoslovakia | 89.66 m OR | x | x | 88.18 m | 89.66 m | 86.28 m | x | OR |
2 | Seppo Räty | Finland | 78.50 m | 86.60 m | 81.44 m | 83.22 m | x | x | 86.60 m | |
3 | Steve Backley | Great Britain | 82.44 m | 82.02 m | 79.46 m | 83.38 m | 78.32 m | 79.86 m | 83.38 m | |
4th | Kimmo Kinnunen | Finland | x | 82.86 m | x | x | x | x | 82.86 m | |
5 | Sigurdur Einarsson | Iceland | 79.52 m | 75.02 m | 77.96 m | x | x | 80.34 m | 80.34 m | |
6th | Juha Laukkanen | Finland | 77.44 m | x | 74.56 m | 76.92 m | 79.20 m | 78.46 m | 79.20 m | |
7th | Michael Barnett | United States | 78.64 m | 78.58 m | x | 77.70 m | 74.12 m | x | 78.64 m | |
8th | Andrei Shevchuk | EUN | 77.00 m | x | 77.74 m | x | x | 73.42 m | 77.74 m | |
9 | Gavin Lovegrove | New Zealand | 74.46 m | 77.08 m | 76.78 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
77.08 m | |||
10 | Tom Pukstys | United States | 76.72 m | x | 72.12 m | 76.72 m | ||||
11 | Mick Hill | Great Britain | 75.50 m | x | 72.02 m | 75.50 m | ||||
12 | Volker Hadwich | Germany | 75.28 m | 72.98 m | 70.12 m | 75.28 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed February 13, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 52, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018
Video
- Men's Javelin Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 9, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 13, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 680 , accessed on February 13, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 52, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 13, 2018